Originally published in 1649 under title: "A physicall directory; or, A translation of the London dispensatory, made by the Colledge of Physicians in London [Wing C7540]," itself a translation of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1618. Cf. Wellcome, II. p. 414, and Austin

Running title: The physitians library

Printed in two columns

Includes an index

Signatures: A-Y⁸ Z⁸(-Z8) (Z7 blank). Cf. ESTC

NLM copy lacks blank leaf Z7

NLM copy: MS. slip affixed to back paste-down: "First book relating to Medicine printed in New England, Boston, 1720"

Film 633 reel 33 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 33, no. 591)

(from t.p.) in this impression you may find, 1. Three hundred useful additions. 2. All the notes that were in the margent are brought in the book ... 3. The virtues, qualities, and properties of every simple. 4. The virtues and use of the compounds. 5. Cautions in giving all medicines that are dangerous. 6. All the medicines that were in the Old Latin Dispensary ... 7. A key to Galen and Hippocrates ... 8. In this impression, the Latin name of every one of the compounds is printed, and in what page of the new folio Latin book they are to be found

Evans

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints

Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.

ESTC (RLIN)

Microfilm

NLM copy provenance: inscribed on back free endpaper: "Richd [Richard] Gill His Book"; inscribed on front free endpaper: "Rhoad [Rhode] Island Currency 8/, 1725 Bought of Frankline [i.e., James or Benjamin Franklin?] the Printer by Richd [Richard] Gill"; stamp of James Swaim

NLM copy bound in contemporary sprinkled panelled calfskin, decorated with a double-fillet central panel, from the four corners of which are tooled at angles tulips; rebacked and repaired on the front cover with brown goatskin

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